All Episodes
Science Friction — 254 episodes
03 | Dead and Alive: Plucky country
02 | Dead and Alive: Quantum attack
01 | Dead and Alive: Battle for quantum supremacy
INTRODUCING — Dead and Alive
12 | Artemis Explained: What a ride
11 | Artemis Explained: Mission accomplished
10 | Artemis Explained: Countdown to splashdown
09 | Artemis Explained: Next stop, Earth
08 | Artemis Explained: Homeward bound
07 | Artemis Explained: Moon flyby success
06 | Artemis Explained: Moon joy
05 | Artemis Explained: Science in space
04 | Artemis Explained: Halfway to the Moon
03 | Artemis Explained: No turning back
02 | Artemis Explained: Lift off
01 | Artemis Explained: Before the launch
BONUS | The Challenger Legacy: Q&A
05 | The Challenger Legacy: Apollo on Steroids
04 | The Challenger Legacy: The Devil You Know
03 | The Challenger Legacy: Columbia
02 | The Challenger Legacy: Five Lepers
01 | The Challenger Legacy: Launch Fever
INTRODUCING — The Challenger Legacy
05 | Artificial Evolution: Gene-Edited Babies
04 | Artificial Evolution: Pig Parts for People?
03 | Artificial Evolution: Yuck or Yum? Gene-Edited Meat
02 | Artificial Evolution: Genetically Modified Marsupials
01 | Artificial Evolution: Cloning Goes Mainstream
INTRODUCING — Artificial Evolution
05 | Brain Rot: Meet the people who ditched their smartphones. Is it worth it?
04 | Brain Rot: Is internet addiction real?
03 | Brain Rot: Is tech making your memory better or worse?
02 | Brain Rot: Is AI turning us off human relationships?
01 | Brain Rot: Is there any proof your phone is destroying your attention span?
INTRODUCING — Brain Rot
06 | Cooked: Vitamin B3 ... and the media
05 | Cooked: Electrolytes — who needs them?
04 | Cooked: A peculiar potato experiment
03 | Cooked: Mystery in the Mediterranean
02 | Cooked: All-meat eaters say they feel great - but why?
01 | Cooked: Could ice cream actually be good for you?
00 | INTRODUCING — Cooked
06 | Is super-intelligent AI around the corner?
05 | The year the world woke up to AI with a bang
04 | If you control AI, you control the world
03 | The bumpy history of driverless cars and their AI brains
02 | Locked up by AI for a crime he didn't commit
01 | The day modern AI toppled humanity's champion
I for one welcome... Hello AI Overlords!
REAL WILD CHILD (Part 4) — The Lost Boys
What family secrets hide inside your cells? Epigenetics, trauma, and ancestry
Robbie and the DNA Detectives
REAL WILD CHILD (Part 3) — The superstar of Tai Asks Why
REAL WILD CHILD (Part 2) — I grew up in a cult
REAL WILD CHILD (Part 1) — The nuclear boy scouts
Thanks for the fun! Science Friction's Natasha Mitchell has some news
The fantastical world of fusion – The Expanse's Ty Franck and futurist Karl Schroeder (Part 2)
Nuclear disruption — will starry-eyed startups win the nuclear fusion race? (Part 1)
The unexpected lives of Lab Shenanigans and The Scholar Diaries
Out of jail, is the CRISPR-baby scandal scientist at it again?
Science is political — Australia's science minister Ed Husic
Quantum bullsh*t — how (not) to ruin your life with advice from quantum physics
We're here, we're queer, and omg science!
World Pride 2023 - Love Your Nature
Rock celebrity! The big bucks and wild geopolitics of meteorites - Part 2
Rock celebrity! The Black Beauty saga - Part 1
Gene edited foods back on the menu - what are they and what's changed? (REPEAT)
Twinning! (REPEAT)
Escaping Russia's new Iron Curtain — superstar science podcaster Ilya Kolmanovsky (REPEAT)
AI ethics leader Timnit Gebru is changing it up after Google fired her (REPEAT)
Scratch that itch! Meet the Sneaky Artist (REPEAT)
The mighty fly army (REPEAT)
Brains vs brains, boys vs girls! Science Friction's 2022 quiz show
Prison for protesting - climate change activists or criminals?
The soul in the machine — anthropologist, technologist, futurist Genevieve Bell
The End of the Universe with poet Alicia Sometimes (Part 2 of 2)
Presents: WHO'S GONNA SAVE US? Citizens Assemble!
Presents: WHO'S GONNA SAVE US? Better Call Saul
Love and Exile: An everlasting mystery (Part 2 of 2)
Love and Exile: An everlasting mystery (Part 1 of 2)
Sex, tech, intimacy and power — Jennifer Mills, Rob Brooks, Josephine Taylor
Deep Past meets Deep Future — science fiction star Becky Chambers
What came before the Big Bang? Poet Alicia Sometimes wants to know
Do we need a revolution? Bruce Pascoe, James Bradley, Michelle Johnston, Lesley Head
Sex cells! Are there just two biological sexes? [Part 2]
Simón(e) Sun - I knew I was trans because of science [Part 1] REPEAT
I still call Australia home ... but. Why the USA is stealing our scientists
Fire of Love – the radical passion of Katia and Maurice Krafft
If trees could talk (Part 2) - Living fossils on the edge
If trees could talk … what could they tell you? (Part 1)
YOU can save the planet. Con or not? National Science Week debate
The wattle war (repeat)
Ecofascism – are far-right extremists the new environmentalists?
Holy great desert fireballs! The meteorite chasers
His snailyness (Little Beasts, Big Jobs Part 3)
Rats to the rescue (Little Beasts, Big Jobs Part 2)
The mighty fly army (Little Beasts, Big Jobs Part 1)
Carlo Rovelli: intellectual free spirit, quantum physicist, bestselling author[REPEAT]
Gene edited foods back on the menu - what are they and what's changed?
Move over Mills and Boon, the HOT SCIENTISTS are here
The STEAM Room science experiment — I wannabe a stand-up comic!
How two short words triggered a racism reckoning for plant scientists
The second kind of impossible: Part 2 — the wild adventure (REPEAT)
The second kind of impossible: Part 1 — a maverick mind (REPEAT)
Should Big Pharma profit from secret COVID-19 vaccine deals? Moderna responds
Feeling a bit hopeless? Primatologist Dr Jane Goodall is here for YOU
Scratch that itch! She of flamenco flair and molecular dances
AI ethics leader Timnit Gebru is changing it up after Google fired her
World-first pig to human heart transplant. What happened?
Scratch that itch! Meet the Sneaky Artist
Escaping Russia's new Iron Curtain - superstar science podcaster Ilya Kolmanovsky
Foodies, why you should give a f*** about farming!
The gun dealer’s defence — on nukes, fossil fuels, and Australia
Breaking Buruli, part two
Breaking Buruli, part one
Masha and Dasha
Twinning!
Does Omicron spell the end of Covid-zero in China?
Science FAIL! A perilous story of why it's good to do (REPEAT)
The Anthropocene radical: the scientist who saved the world (REPEAT)
Your right to know the universe! Chanda Prescod-Weinstein's disordered cosmos and Particles for Justice (REPEAT)
Natasha tries taxidermy: the wild, wonderful world of the museum makers (REPEAT)
I grew up in a sect — top scientist's candid story of an Orange People childhood (REPEAT)
From wild idea to COVID vaccine – meet the mRNA pioneer who could win a Nobel (REPEAT)
Science meets high vaudeville - who will win our 2021 quiz?
Nature Fast, Nature Slow - ballistic mushrooms, moss piglets and more!
The Lost Family - how DNA testing is upending our lives
Two guys. Two kayaks. And 2500km to make the Murray River sing
Get me out of here! My life in medical research is on life support
Carbon capture and storage – climate saviour or fantasy?
Net Zero by 2050 - is the Earth at the negotiating table at COP26?
Sex cells! Are there just two biological sexes? [Part 2 of 2]
Simón(e) Sun - I knew I was trans because of science [Part 1]
In deep: why mining is heading to the seafloor
What's up Doc? Elmer Fudd meets biological warfare
My Afghanistan escape - just a body, not a soul, or a heart (Part 2)
What happens when your students join the Taliban? Afghan scientists in hiding (Part 1)
We've got cosmic vertigo!
The art of more - did maths create civilisation?
The virus busters: how do you kill something that's not really alive?
What if Picasso's canvas was smaller than a human hair? (REPEAT)
Science Week debate: You can't handle the (scientific) truth!
Hunting the ghosts of pandemics past
When fish are kin: Max Liboiron's anti-colonial science
The long COVID doctors (Part 2 of 2)
The long COVID doctors (Part 1 of 2)
The art and science of Deep Time travel
Pain-free meat — is it possible?
Medicine listen up! Birthing on country makes the land shake
The second kind of impossible: Part 2 — the wild adventure
The second kind of impossible: Part 1 — a maverick mind
14-day rule on human embryo research – why do scientists want it lifted?
The wattle war
The wild woman of Brooklyn, the Peabody bones, and science of tree climbing! [REPEAT]
Lucy's Story - the chimp, the poet, and the interspecies experiment that went weird [REPEAT]
Troublemakers for truth — death threats for calling out bad COVID science
The Anthropocene radical: the scientist who saved the world
Your right to know the universe! Chanda Prescod-Weinstein's disordered cosmos and Particles for Justice
I grew up in a sect — top scientist's candid story of an Orange People childhood
Natasha tries taxidermy: the wild, wonderful world of the museum makers
The mystery of the flute boy bones: a child lost in time
Artists on the loose at the Large Hadron Collider - Science Friction at the CERN (REPEAT)
Trust after genocide: this African COVID success is a big wake-up call for the West
Laurence Vincent Lapointe's 'Pee of Gold': Has anti-doping science gone too far?
How to Be Animal - go on, embrace your inner beast!
Carlo Rovelli: intellectual free spirit, quantum physicist, bestselling author
Meaning in mayhem: COVID death counts and a Black Lives Matter reckoning
Science FAIL! A perilous story of why it's good to do
DEMONS: be scared, very scared*
From wild idea to COVID vaccine – meet the mRNA pioneer who could win a Nobel
Of Mice and Men: This top cancer scientist thought he knew a lot about cancer. Then he got it.
COVID-19, China’s wild wet markets, pangolins, and bats - is it US not THEM?
School gate racism, education reclaimed, and family found (Part 2)
How to be Two Ways strong: Dreamtime science and finding yourself (Part 1)
The carnivorous woman – a saga from Charles Darwin to Wheatbelt Western Australia (Part 2)
A wild and whimsical world of flesh-eating plants (Part 1)
Mike's Miracle at Lightning Ridge
Two thousand flamingos & a war-torn island: controversy over Australian mine proposal
Phallacy! Life lessons from the animal penis
The BIG 20 Science Friction quiz! Wow or what!? moments in 21C science
How do you solve a problem like Dark Matter? With poet Alicia Sometimes
Machines as kin or the new colonisers? Indigenous tech revolutionaries rethinking A.I
Hacks turned quacks!
Arson, evil and getting inside humanity's dark side: Dr Julia Shaw and Chloe Hooper
Censorship, political interference, and COVID-19 chaos - should scientists take a position in USA Election?
These doctors got COVID-19, now they're suffering the serious, mysterious symptoms of 'long COVID'
The wild woman of Brooklyn, the Peabody bones, and science of tree climbing!
Lucy's Story - the chimp, the poet, and the interspecies experiment that went weird
Click-Sick: Part 3 Can 'wellness' make you...sick?
Click-Sick: Part 2 The hidden political forces pushing pandemic conspiracies
Click-Sick: Part 1 Why sharing isn't always caring. On the trail of COVID-19 misinformation
The rise of vaccine nationalism – should we be worried?
Introducing... Patient Zero
This river is a Person – Maori knowing meets Western science
The In/justices of A.I
The Leadership film - Do Women Scientists Lead Differently?
Was Einstein's wife the hidden contributor on his most famous works? Part 2 (Repeat)
Who was Einstein’s first wife? Part 1 - Debate heats up over Mileva's role in Albert’s science (Repeat)
Medical misinformation, COVID-19, Big Data and Black Lives Matter
Climate in the Courtroom Part 3: Big Energy, big typhoons and a big fight for justice
Climate in the Courtroom Part 2: A fossil fuel company is sued. Now it speaks.
Climate in the Courtroom Part 1: Why is this Peruvian farmer suing Germany's largest power company RWE?
The Animals: Laura Jean McKay, James Bradley, Chris Flynn's wild re-imaginings of other species
From chaos to calm...and a whole universe in between
When fake facts go viral: Islamic science, Medieval medicine and the history police (repeat)
The mystery of two millionaires and two IVF embryos: The Trouble with Embryos (repeat)
The carnivorous woman – a saga from Charles Darwin to Wheatbelt Western Australia (Part 2)
A wild and whimsical world of flesh-eating plants (Part 1)
The Gendered Brain - Gina Rippon and myth shattering neuroscience
The Scientist and the Spy - China, the FBI, espionage, and racism
The Big PhD Pause - postgraduate students, COVID-19, and the next brain drain? (Science Interrupted Part 3)
The Ruins of Science - a story of misdirected medical power
PREVIEW RN Presents — Hot Mess: Why haven’t we fixed climate change?
The astrophysicist Survivor star and immunologist dropping everything to help save you from COVID19 (Science, Interrupted Part 2)
Science, Interrupted Part 1 - lives, loves, labs upended by COVID19
If we can mobilise around a pandemic, what next? Meet two revolutionaries already flouting the rules
COVID-19, China’s wild wet markets, pangolins, and bats - is it US not THEM?
Rules of contagion - meet a mathematician at the frontline of the COVID-19 fight
Acclaimed Beasts of No Nation author Uzodinma Iweala - on science, power, and race
Your 3D printed body
School gate racism, education reclaimed, and family found (Part 2)
How to be Two Ways strong: Dreamtime science and finding yourself (Part 1)
EVACUATE NOW - wildfires and why Will stayed in bed
Wildfires with wild numbers: fact checking a catastrophe
The radical experimenters: a rapper, a poet, and a biological artist
Of Mice and Men: This top cancer scientist thought he knew a lot about cancer. Then he got it.
The predatory publishers sucking science's blood — Updated audio
Do genetic ancestry tests know if you’re Palestinian? A cautionary tale of race and science (Summer Season)
The Hollow Bones: the weird world of Nazi 'science' meets mysticism on the road to Tibet (Summer Season)
Faith challenged - 21 and searching for science in the land of Trump (Summer Season)
Lolita and Linda's uterus transplant - an ethical, emotional, and scientific minefield (Summer Season)
The ultimate designer accessory - an artificial womb? (Summer Season)
Science Friction's End of the Year quiz show!
Discover your dark side - the science, psychology, and philosophy of evil
Selfish by nature? Two scientific renegades who looked for kindness and paid a price
A whole lot of POO!
"A perfectly normal girl - although she likes computers" Hidden stories from Australian computing
The Ladies' Log: Who (not what) were the first computers?
Searching for Doggerland: stones, bones and a world submerged by climate change
Matty's Story - donor conception and the cost of secrecy
The conundrum of unused IVF embryos: The Trouble With Embryos Part 2
The mystery of two millionaires and two IVF embryos: The Trouble with Embryos Part 1
Pulsar woman: It's not a bird, it's not a quasar, it's...
Broad Band - the untold story of the women who made the internet
Bioerror to bioterror - does synthetic biology give new tools to terrorists? Part 2
Bioerror to bioterror - what if a human-engineered virus escaped the lab? Part 1
Lovers in the Lab: when your passion for science becomes passion for each other
Tai Asks Why - the seventh grader with a cult science podcast and mind for big ideas
Only technology will save us from ourselves - Science Friction's Beaker Street Great Debate
This famous physicist wants to solve a big mystery – cancer
Artists on the loose at the Large Hadron Collider - Science Friction at the CERN
A mind on the move - Nobel winner Venki Ramakrishnan on being an outsider, borders and Brexit
Brexit gets personal: borders, brains and science
The Apocalypse Part 3: A supervolcanic winter